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It is funny the headlines that come out of this ruling, yet none tell the facts. Basically the Supreme Court said the EPA doesn't have the authority to raise its authority on emitters from 83% to 86% (yes 3% is what the argument was over) without Congressional approval; EPA can still regulate 83% of all emitters because they emit other pollutants already.
All your powerplants, industrial sites, and transportation based carbon emitters can be (and most likely will be) regulated still. This doesn't mean industry won't stop suing over the matter though.
Ah, activist judges when they make decisions people don't like...common sense when they make decisions people agree with.
I get it now...
that is as bad as unelected EPA bureaucrats making law. something that those same jerks are not allowed to do. only congress is allowed to make law on a national scale.
It is funny the headlines that come out of this ruling, yet none tell the facts. Basically the Supreme Court said the EPA doesn't have the authority to raise its authority on emitters from 83% to 86% (yes 3% is what the argument was over) without Congressional approval; EPA can still regulate 83% of all emitters because they emit other pollutants already.
All your powerplants, industrial sites, and transportation based carbon emitters can be (and most likely will be) regulated still. This doesn't mean industry won't stop suing over the matter though.
This is correct. It was more of victory for the EPA than a loss. The OP got the headline for this thread from the Fox News website. Is it therefore any wonder why this headline is misleading?
Rather funny the differences in reporting the supreme court ruling, even Justice Scalia stated it was a victory for the EPA.“EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case,” Justice Antonin Scalia. But then there is the Fox News Spin.
Quote:
The Supreme Court on Monday mostly validated the Environmental Protection
Agency’s plans to regulate power plant and factory emissions of greenhouse gases
blamed for global warming while imposing some limits on the agency’s reach.
The justices said the EPA could not rewrite specific standards written into
the law, but they still handed the Obama administration and environmentalists a
big victory by agreeing there was another way for the EPA to carry out its
program.
By the way, the surface has still been warming, just less. And that doesn't mean the Earth as a whole isn't warming.
Actually its been cooling since 1933.
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